THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
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2,986
14,385
"Where do you see yourself in four years?"
"In your chair, asking better questions."
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3,152
12,163
Rich Titanic tourists sink in submarine: Whole world watches as navies spare no expense to find them.
Hundreds of migrants sink in overcrowded boat: Hope you can swim, losers.
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1,754
7,371
972,712
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
- Desmond Tutu (1931 - 2021)
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1,854
6,219
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong.
When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.
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1,491
5,457
600,016
Reminder:
You are not working from home; you are at your home during a crisis trying to work.
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1,612
5,844
"You are not working from home; you are at your home during a crisis trying to work."
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1,817
4,879
Remember:
You are not working from home; you are at your home during a crisis trying to work.
13
1,803
4,261
Reminder:
You are not "working from home".
You are home during a crisis, trying to work.
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1,014
3,956
"You have to build a life beyond your job, and expecting your job to give you all your happiness isn't going to work, even when you like your work."
- @AOC
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3,933
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Believing they're "self-made"
45
1,146
3,869
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
22
900
3,662
Humans are meant to be loved.
Objects are meant to be used.
Things go astray when objects are loved and humans are used.
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981
3,683
"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen
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796
3,399
If you study hard, do your best and work hard, your future boss may one day go to space.
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662
3,144
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong.
When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.
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889
3,067
"Yeah we could pay taxes or solve real world problems but we prefer space games."
- Bezos, Branson, Musk
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832
3,020
Life's short. Make sure you spend a lot of time debating politics and ethics with anonymous Twitter trolls.
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745
2,918
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist.”
- David Attenborough
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797
2,862
122,082
A city has 100 inhabitants.
99 have been vaccinated
1 has not
2 people get COVID-19:
1 vaccinated and 1 unvaccinated:
Some newspapers:
“50% of the Covid patients are vaccinated!
Vaccines do not work!l”
What could possibly be wrong with such headlines?
36
875
2,936
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistance
7. Family network
29
873
3,006
Life's short. Make sure you spend a lot of time debating politics and ethics with anonymous Twitter trolls.
22
647
2,978
It’s only Quarantine if it’s in the Quarantine province of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling self isolation.
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696
2,791
We're not in the same boat.
We may be in the same storm.
But some are in a yacht,
some in a canoe,
and others are drowning.
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691
2,585
"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
- David Graeber
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646
2,484
"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen
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770
2,621
Newton discovered gravity in quarantine.
Shakespeare wrote King Lear in quarantine.
I just bingewatched everything Ricky Gervais ever made on Netflix.
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396
2,494
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
16
639
2,327
217,224
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
- Niels Bohr
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499
2,378
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
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631
2,342
Today's reminder:
It's okay to change your opinion if you're presented with new information.
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636
2,320
A city has 100 inhabitants.
99 have been vaccinated
1 has not
2 people get COVID-19:
1 vaccinated and 1 unvaccinated:
Some newspapers:
“50% of the Covid patients are vaccinated!
Vaccines do not work!l”
What could possibly be wrong with such headlines?
37
630
2,245
“Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them.“
- Robin Williams
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482
2,187
216,979
"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
- David Graeber
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607
2,191
Reality:
I completed an easy course.
LinkedIn:
I am humbled and honered to announce that I was able to successfully participate in a thought-leader taught program from a world-leading institution which enables me to professionally thrive in today's volatile business environment.
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395
2,244
"Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."
- Hannah Arendt
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613
2,188
"No citizen should ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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482
2,138
"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
- Noam Chomsky (born #onthisday)
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737
2,016
"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching."
- Keith Lowell Jensen
8
480
2,020
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
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777
2,072
Your daily reminder:
You are not "working from home".
You are home during a crisis, trying to work.
13
665
2,106
On the bright side:
Facebook complied with all relevant privacy laws for 6 hours in a row now.
#facebookdown #instagramdown
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2,099
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're 'self-made'
16
391
1,990
Dance like nobody's watching.
Email like it will one day be read aloud at a deposition.
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461
1,967
20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30.
1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.
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479
1,950
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
21
700
1,918
Reality:
I completed an easy course.
LinkedIn:
I am humbled and honered to announce that I was able to successfully participate in a thought-leader taught program from a world-leading institution which enables me to professionally thrive in today's volatile business environment.
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289
1,892
